Seattle Video TransferStart Intake

Your memories, ready for today

Seattle-area drop-off digitizing for family tapes, camcorder footage, and personal archives. Most tapes start at $25.

Local drop-off by appointment
No mailing required
One MP4 file per tape
Home movies and customer-owned recordings only
A keepsake box with old home video tapes, family photos, and a tablet showing a softened family video

Your tapes become more useful once they are digital

Digitizing is not just about rescuing old media. It turns forgotten footage into files you can watch, organize, edit, share, and preserve with the tools you already use.

YouTube
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
Google Photos
Apple Photos

Platform names and logos are used only as familiar examples of how customers commonly use digital video files; no affiliation is implied.

Share family moments again

Send birthday parties, graduations, holidays, and everyday home movies to siblings, parents, grandparents, and old friends without passing around fragile tapes.

Create new clips from old footage

Pull short moments for reels, memorial videos, anniversary edits, reunion slideshows, YouTube stories, and social posts that give old recordings a second life.

Build a real family archive

Keep MP4 copies in Google Photos, Apple Photos, iCloud, Dropbox, external drives, or a family media folder so memories are easier to find and back up.

Preserve more than video

Old camcorder footage often captures voices, rooms, cars, clothes, pets, neighborhoods, and people exactly as they were. Digitizing makes those details accessible again.

New life for old footage

Tapes degrade over time, so the time to digitize your tapes is now. Start with a simple tape count so old footage can become a family text thread, a YouTube upload, a creator clip, a memorial montage, a graduation surprise, or a backed-up archive your family can actually use.

Start with your tape count

Supported tape formats

Simple tape transfers for common home-video and camcorder formats, with clear notes when a tape is damaged, blank, or cannot be captured.

VHS logo

VHS

VHS-C logo

VHS-C

S-VHS logo

S-VHS

MiniDV logo

MiniDV

HDV logo

HDV

Do not see your media listed? Start the intake process and we may be able to help you.

Media format logos are used only to identify supported tape formats. All marks remain the property of their respective owners.

How it works

  1. 01

    Submit intake form.

  2. 02

    Get quote and drop-off instructions.

  3. 03

    Tapes are transferred and checked.

  4. 04

    Receive digital files by secure download link or USB.

  5. 05

    Original tapes are returned.

Straightforward pricing

Share a few details about your tapes and we will confirm the quote before any drop-off. You will know the expected cost before work begins.

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Standard tape transfer, up to 2 hours$25/tape
5-9 tapes$22/tape
10+ tapes$20/tape
Additional footage over 2 hours+$10 per additional 2 hours
Rush service+$15/tape
USB drive supplied by businessDrive cost + $10 handling

Handled carefully, stored temporarily.

Files are not shared. Working copies are retained only temporarily. Customers are responsible for downloading and backing up digital files after delivery.

Start Your Tape Transfer Request